The availability of these instant solutions have shifted not just our lifestyles, but our very decision making processes. With all of the luxuries and conveniences on-demand tools provide, they can be an unhealthy pairing when it comes to food.

When we prepare our meals at home, including our on-the-go lunches and snacks, we use fruits and vegetables (organic if possible), lean proteins, and healthy grains and fats to control what we put into our bodies and influence our health. Food is our medicine after all!

The key to delivering a better food future for everyone is moving beyond individual change into the public realm. We must act collectively, pressuring governments to use their regulatory and legislative powers to emphasize health, sustainability and fairness.

Meticulously searching for the perfect burger restaurant in each Canadian province and territory was no small feat, but the Deal Experts at Travelzoo have done it.... In honour of Hamburger Day 2016, here is a list of some amazing burger joints from coast to coast.

Canadians are familiar with the company's television ads promoting its "vegetarian-fed" chicken and beef with "no added hormones or steroids" (although neither policy affects animal welfare). While McDonald's and Wendy's are racing ahead to appear like chicken liberators, A&W risks branding itself as the guys who keep hens locked up.

Why does your culture matter when it comes to your food choices? What we all should have in common as our birthright is a healthy heart, a strong body, extraordinary energy, and a long and healthy life -- all of which we would be enabled to by access to nutritious and delicious foods.

The more kids learn about food, where it comes from and how to prepare it, the more likely they are to be healthy eaters and have a healthy relationship with food. Get kids involved in cooking even if it's as simple as stirring or helping choose ingredients. Kids love to try foods they helped make!

You could get up early and swing by the drive-thru for breakfast — or you could sleep in a little longer, then make this McDonald's classic from the comfort of your own home. In the video above by Buz...

McDonald's rebooted their Hamburglar character and let's just say this: Keep an eye on your burgers, but you may also want to watch out for the skeeve factor. He's kind of creepy. But what do you thin...

TORONTO - The fast-food burger keeps getting more upmarket and expensive, and an analyst says that trend isn't going away.Last year, Canadians bought nearly 15 million burgers at an average price of $...

With more cattle spread across the rolling Alberta foothills than there are people, it's no surprise that Calgary is home to some bodacious burgers. Whether you like 'em spiced, stuffed, or au naturale, you'll be able to find some ground chuck game changers in Calgary. This list grills up a healthy dose of Alberta pride, served up in quarter and half pound portions. Open wide.

Canada isn't exactly lacking in the fast food department. We all know where to go for chicken nuggets, whoppers and Frappacinos — signature items at Canada's best known fast food joints. Internationa...

It's not like I want to give credit to huge retailers and big food for making change, and I'm certainly not advocating for anyone to start eating fast food, or shopping big box before local indie. But...

If you google it, most restaurants take anywhere from 145 seconds-180 seconds to make your food. That's you telling the big board your order and it getting cooked. So it's 2 minutes and 30 seconds from the time you say "burger and fries please" till the time you have food in your hands.

So, if you are absolutely determined to escape the sodium trap, the best you can do is to stick with whole fruits and vegetables, lean, unprocessed meats, fresh seafood, beans and legumes, and unrefined whole grains.

TORONTO - Restaurant chains like Tim Hortons, McDonald's and Subway are expected to face more pressure in the coming years as Canadians scale back on eating out.A new study from research firm NPD Grou...

If America and Canada ever had a love child, this is exactly what they would create: a burger poutine. Available for a limited time across the country, the 880-calorie poutine dish — called the Pouti...

This summer Mexico put in place a ban of food advertising to children. The target is junk. Restricting advertising to children is good policy as one part of efforts to have our kids eat nutritiously right from the start. However, in this increasingly interconnected world it is harder and harder for any one society to effectively constrain such promotions.

Obesity is one of the leading causes of heart disease and metabolic syndromes. It leads to a deterioration in the quality of our life and often the length, too. Some experts have gone as far as saying childhood obesity is such an epidemic that this current generation of youngsters will have a shorter life expectancy than that of their parents!

there is some evidence that consumers are turning away from at least some forms of junk food and beverages. To the extent this is so the market will respond. One piece of evidence is the falling rates of soft drink consumption. Another indication that some consumers are spurning junk food and beverages is the emergence of "virtuous fast food."

Canadians are well used to looking on in envy as our neighbours to the south get all the good stuff, and when it comes to food, it seems that happens even more often. Heck, the U.S. even got the Tim H...

You already know which foods are Canadian, but just for the sake of pure salivating satisfaction, we'll just list off a few of our favourites: Butter tarts. Sushi pizza. Poutine. OK, we'll stop now. W...

Say hello to "Mr. Happy," McDonald's new ambassador of nutrition. Yes, nutrition and McDonald's are now in the same sentence! I'm scared and sad. I don't want to learn from a box. I don't want to learn from a scary, big toothed, slightly creepy object. How am I supposed to trust that? Nutrition needs to be clean, whole, nutrient dense and not in a box. I can make a fast food meal that's more nutritious and much faster than McDonald's can -- raw spinach greens, easy over eggs and a green smoothie. It would take 10 minutes flat and I wouldn't have to leave my house or put expensive, air polluting gas in the car!

If you look online, you can easily find plenty of examples showing you just how different the fast food you order at a restaurant is from the advertisements that get you ordering it in the first place...

Robots may soon be preparing and serving food at fast food restaurants. Increased pressure to raise employee wages has prompted chains to rethink their business model and replace these workers with machines. This technology will begin arriving soon but will the food still taste good and be safe to eat?

It's not unconditional love or anything, but Canadians are pretty crazy about Tim Hortons. So it might come as a surprise to learn that Canada is the world’s largest per-capita market for … Starbucks....

For fans, there's thrill in the spill, excitement in excess and comfort in the calories of stadium food, whether you belong to the salty sorority or the battered brotherhood. And in the especially lengthy game of baseball, a hearty, crowd-pleasing menu is needed to keep fans at their top-notch cheering ability.

With obesity the die is usually cast early. The results of a major study in the US have established that a third of children overweight in kindergarten are obese by the eighth grade. Almost every child who was very obese stayed that way as they grew older. An individual should not be easily blamed for conditions that result from their childhood when they have little control over their well-being.